Last Post Of The Year?

Bit sneaky, this entry, as it covers me until next year *grins*, but yesterday, I actually managed to put a dent in a problematic Mission 101 Task, and chalk up another movie for

28 Watch one "classic" film for each month of my Mission (10/33)

namely From Here To Eternity (1953). So many of the movies that fit my criteria are either cowboy movies (which I have no love for) or war films (which I'll watch if they're any good) - this fits in the latter category, but From Here... was good - Frank Sinatra was particularly surprising as the hero's seemingly solitary friend in the world, and the whole setting, Hawai'i prior to Pearl Harbour, melted into the background until the very end as military men show themselves as either all too human, or all too inhuman. Definitely a "war" film for people who don't like war films. 8/10

I could possibly fill my quota for 2010 with some effort tomorrow - I should have sufficient movies "on file" - but naaah. It's not like I have anything special planned for tomorrow night - apart from sitting down with Scott Pilgrim and an onion bhaji sandwich - but I'm not needing any stress. Unlike previous years, we're not expecting anyone for "the bells" on what's going to be the last New Year at this address...

No. NOT going to be as "heavy" as it might sound. Goodbye "Year of Change", hello "Son of Year of Change"...

And finally... Here's a new Task!

99 Reach an audience!

More on this very soon!

A Bunch Of Last Minute Year-Fragments

Argh. Sometimes, you just have to get away from it all. Baking therapy completed - if you can count melting chocolate and stirring in breakfast cereal as "baking" - I'm back to try and make some sense of the day... whatever's left of it. Later, I'll be making good on my planned Scott Pilgrim veg-out, but first, I want to make some kind of writing progress; I have a section at the end of the current chapter that just DOESN'T sit right - must've been too wrapped up in yesterday's movie to give the day's output the fullest attention. Ultima Online followed dinner yesterday (a nice old-fashioned Peerless hunt, with the unofficial addition of some storyline bad guy-thrashing), and that was pretty much it for Thursday.

Back to today... Gonna try and squeeze in Casablanca before dinner, by the look of things. Maybe a bit of disconnection would help the creative process...?